To use Aine in Blade, move to the ? and press up 3 times, down 3 times, then up 7 times. To use Marion in the Saturn version of Blade, simply finish the game with everyone once (use Monkey difficulty), then press up at the ?; after unlocking Marion, using Aine only requires pressing up twice at the ?.

To unlock everything in Cannon (Tengai and Junis, Hard difficulty), go to the "Press Start Button" title screen and press left 3 times, down once, then right 9 times (Tengai will laugh if you did it right).

Here's a simple Ace 1-ALL guide, and here's the big Blade guide.----------Post scores in this format:

And while I'm at it, I might as well toss in my Sengoku Blade result I got after a couple of attempts in-between Dogyuun runs:

Sengoku Blade - Aine

Perikles - 1,113,800 - 2-3 - 1P - Yes - ShmupMAME v4.2 (Japan)

Without a doubt my favourite Psikyo games, I might even try to 2-ALL Blade and get a better score in Ace at some point. Is there a way to ensure which one of the bosses you get in stage 4 in Ace? That's quite a significant difference in score, especially if you get the wrong one in both loops.

All the games on the "psikyosh" driver in MAME have fixed order on reset. So Strikers 1945 II and Gunbird 2 are like that too.

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I'm aware of the random stages, I was indeed referring to the fourth boss. From stage 4 onwards, Sengoku Ace has a fixed stage order, but it seems to me like the boss you have to fight in stage 4 is random. Two platforms will arise:

For scoring purposes, you want the guy on the left since he has a few little orbs that'll drop a power-up upon destruction whereas the right boss has no accompanying elements. I'm not sure whether you can manipulate that as you can for the mid-boss in the final stage of Strikers 1945 or the one boss fight in Strikers 1999 by a specific position on the screen, I couldn't find any immediately apparent pattern, however.